Ann Ploeger: My Melinda

Who can forget photographer Ann Ploeger’s gory 2009 series of blood-spattered faces, aptly titled Blood? She’s up to the old horror antics again in her current show at Pushdot, My Melinda. This sublimely creepy show features a single model portraying the eponymous foxy redhead, a character in faux-horror movies drawn from Ploeger’s imagination. In photo after photo, the intrepid Melinda finds herself in danger’s path: inside a claustrophobic shower enclosure, glimpsed by a voyeur through a window at night. What harm will befall her? Can sheer pluck and great lipstick save her from impending doom? Through May 31.

Ecologically themed art tends to be dull and sanctimonious, but not so in the hands of Wesley Younie. His idylls of environmental paradise lost abound with equal parts whimsy and intelligence. In the ...